Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries